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According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a disease is rare if it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans. One in 10 Americans live with a rare disease—affecting 30 million people—and nearly half of these patients are children. There are more than 7,000 rare diseases, 95 percent of which have no treatment. Often, research gets funded by the families and friends of patients or by patient organizations
Rare Disease Day is an annual awareness day celebrated around the world dedicated to elevating public understanding of rare diseases and calling attention to the special challenges people face. Rare Disease Day takes place every year on the last day of February (February 28 or February 29 in a leap year)—the rarest date on the calendar—to underscore the nature of rare diseases and what patients face.
